Hello Rohit,
BUSINESS OBJECT is strategic business intelligence system which lets the user to access the data, to analyse the data and share the information both within and outside the organisation.
- The data is accessed from the source like :-
RDMS ------------------------ Oracle, SQL Server
MOLAP---------------------- SAP BW
OTHER SOURCES------------SAP ERP
- HANA.
- Business object enterprise system can connect to the source with help of drivers which can be ODBC or JDBC.
- Analyse the data different BI Tools are given by business object like: -
WEB INTELLIGENCE or WEB RICH CLIENT,
DESKTOP INTELLIGENCE , CRYSTALREPORTS, EXCEL CS or DASHBOARD DESIGNER,
LUMIRA, MS ANALYSYS FOR OFFICE ETC.
- To share the information to user there is a portal service known as INFOVIEW in 3.X
but from 4.0 known as BI LAUNCH PAD.
SAP-BOBI-4.X
BI- It's a approach collect data from various business applications, integrate into big database and generate report to simple decision making.
BI ARCHITECTURE CONTAINS FOLLOWING 3 LAYERS
1) OLTP
2) OLAP
3) Reporting / Analytics / BI tools
OLTP ( Online transaction processing database)
This database contains detailed table to process online transaction from various sources.
for making this
EX:-
SQL ---Oracle
SQLSERVER----MICROSOFT
DB2-----IBM
HDFS( Hadoop distribution file system)---- Hadoop R/3, HANA-----SAP
OLAP :-(Online analytical processing)
This database contains summarized Hierarchical table to integrate data from different OLTP source using ETL Tool.
EX:-
BW/BODS(Business object data service)----------SAP ODW (Oracle data warehouse) --Oracle
Data Stage-------------IBM
SSIS(sql server integrated services)----------- Microsoft
Reporting/ Analytics /BI
This tools are to access data from various databases, format, manipulate,navigate,analyze,share information across multiple platforms to simplify decision making.
EX:-
BEX/BOBI ------------SAP
SEBL-------------------Oracle
COGNOS-------------IBM
SSRS/SSAS (sql server reporting services)------------MS Analytics.
COMPANY NAME | DB TOOL | ETL TOOL | REPORTING TOOLS |
SAP | R/3 | BEX/BODS | BEX/BO |
ORACLE | SQL | ODW | SEBL |
IBM | DB2 | DATA STAGE | COGNOS |
MICROSOFT | SQL SERVER | SSJS | SSRS/SSAS |
HADOOP | HDFS | HIVE | MAPR |
Advantages of BO-BI
- BO reporting tools are very flexible to access data from any data sources.
- BO have inbuilt predefined formulas, function to manipulate, format data according to requirement.
- BO have inbuilt robust security model to provide data access for user according to role defined project.
- Share data across multiple platform with multiple format easily.
- Crystal reporting tool can access large No. of transaction from various source.
- BO supports for self reporting for user to analyse the data with various dimensions.
Comparison between SAP& BO Tools
TOOL TYPE | SAP TOOL | BO TOOL |
Admin | Basis | CMC(central mgmt console) |
Detail Report | BEX-Report designer | Crystal Report |
ADHOC | BEX-Analyzer | Web intelligence |
Dashboard | (WAD) Web Application designer | Dashboard Design |
End-user portal | Enterprise portal | BI Launch pad |
Migration | Transportation | (LCMC) Life cycle mgmt console |
ETL | BW | BODS(BODI) |
FAQs
Explain your day to day role in BOBJ ?
- 1) SAND BOX ---------------To conduct training and practise.
- 2) Development----------- To create report and complete unit testing.
- 3) Q&A------ ----------------To provide support for to test all reports.
- 4) production---------------To provide End user training
- 5) Create user manual
- 6) Support & Maintenance.
SAP BOBI 4 Client Tools
SAP BO categorised their client tools into 3 types.
- 1) Admin tools
- 2) Developers tools
- 3) End user tools
Admin tool:-
CCM (Central configuration management) it is a windows based tools to manage BO Server.
Apache Tomcat:- if this server is down BO users cannot launch BI Launch pad application, CMC, LCM(web based tools)
BW publisher services:- This server is to publish BO Reports in SAP Portal.
SAP BO Mobile authentication server:- If this server is down user cannot authenticate form mobile to server.
SAP BO Mobile processing server:- If this server is down mobile user cannot process report from server.
Server intelligent agent (SIA)- if this server is down user cannot login also access any report.
Central management console (CMC) It is web based admin console to perform following admin tasks.
- 1. User Management :- To create new user, Modify, or delete existing user account.
- 2. Service Management :- To stop or Start services for particular user.
- 3. Content Management :- To create groups, folders & provide required access.
LCM (Life Cycle Management)
It is web based tool to promote/deploy reports from DEV to QA to PROD Server.
UPGRADE MANAGEMENT TOOL
It is a windows based tool to upgrade reports from lower version to higher version.
W Deploy
It is windows based tool to deploy software from one application server to another application server.
SAP BO - Developer tools
1) IDT (Information design tool)
It is window based tool to design universe between reports and database.
2) Universe :-
An universe is a semantic (Meaningful) layer (or) Metadata layer to simplify report writing process for End users.
Universe files contains following details:-
- Joins
- classes and object
- Navigation paths
- Global filters
- Global formulas
3) Web intelligent rich clients:-
It is a developer tool to create Adhoc reports for end user with good analytical features.
4) Translation Management:-
It is window based tool to translate report from one layer to another language.
5) Report conversion tool:-
It is window based tool to convert reports from older version desky to new version Webi.
6) QAAWS (Query as a web service) Designer
It is window based tool to create query on universe and publish as web service to dashboard.
7) BVM (Business view manager)
To create semantic layer between crystal reports & other OLTP data sources.
8) Crystal reorts 2011:-
It is a window based tool to create detail report on various OLTP database.
9) Crystal report for Enterprise 4.0 :-
It is End user tool to create self operational reports on universe and BEX Query.
10)Dashboard design (XLCS-2011)
It is window based tool for developers to create summarized dashboard on various sources.
11) SAP LUMIRA:-
It is a end user tool to create self dashboard on various sources.
12)Design Studio:-
It is window based tool to create good analytics on SAP BW<HANADB.
13)Advanced analysis for MS-Excel:-
This tool is to analyze data with Excel function on various SAP BW and HANA.
END USER TOOLS
BI LAUNCH PAD It is web based portal for End-users to access all BO Reports, Also create their own ADHOC reports.
SAP BO-BI ARCHITECTURE
SAP BOBI architecture contains following 6 Types.
- 1. client type
- 2. Web type
- 3. Management type
- 4. Storage
- 5. Processing type
- 6. Data base
1) Client type:-
It is a place where we access BO client tools in alocal computer BO catagorised their client tools into 2 types.
- Web based
- Packaged / Window Based
2) Web type:-
This type contains a component called as WCA(web component adapter) the role of WCA is to hand over BO server login credentials to CMS (Central management server)
3) Management type:-
This type contains following 4 servers
- CMS:-
- Event server:-
- Explorer master server:-
- Server intelligence agent:- This server is to manage all data BO Server.
4) Storage:-
This type contains following 4 types,
- Crystal report cache server:- This server manages recently executed instance of crystal reports.
- Dashboard cache server:-
- Input file repository server (IFRS) E:g - Like Inbox
It contains all of the documents and schedules programs, users that have been
publish to the SAP BOBI platform.
- IV. Output file repository system (OFRS) E:g- Like Sent
This server store all of instance Generated by schedule jobs for all instance delivered from BO server to End user.
5) Processing type:- This type contains following servers.
- Adaptive job server:
- Adaptive processing server:-
- Connection Server:-
- Crystal report processing server 2011:- This server is crystal reports based on end-user viewing request.
- Crystal report Application server 2011:- This server provide ADHOC report capability that allow users to create and modify crystal from CRE.4 (Crystal report enterprise 4)
- Dashboard processing server:- To process dashboard for on demand data.
- Explorer Exploring server:- This server manages the information data space. Exploration and analysis capability include search on data, filtering, & aggregates.
- Explorer indexing server:-
- Explorer search server:-
- Web Intelligence processing server:- To process Webi Report Request.
6) DATA TYPE:- **BO SUPPORTS FOR ALL DATA BASES**
